Research group The Substance Use Group (SUG)

Craving is absolutely central to addiction problems. Unfortunately, the knowledge about craving is still rudimentary. A crucial, but largely unexplored question concerns what triggers craving in everyday life.

Children and youths exposed to 'stigma-related trauma': Narration, agency and support needs is a research project led by Anneli Silvén Hagström at the Department of Social Work.

The responsibility to offer support and treatment for people with gambling problems and their significant others was clarified in Swedish legislation in 2018. The aim of this study was to explore barriers for and experiences of help-seeking among people with gambling and alcohol problems.

Five-year follow-up of adult clients treated for alcohol and/or drug problems and young adults treated for psychosocial problems. The purpose of the follow-up is to examine whether and if so, how the descriptions of processes of change changes over time.

Why do young people use psychoactive substances? Has substance use been normalized or is it still abnormal? Knowledge of this is needed for society to be able to understand and handle changes in consumption and attitudes that have been observed at an aggregate level in recent years.

Preventing ill-health among close relatives of people with alcohol and drug problems: explanatory models and supply of and demand for support

Recovery and identity – a 10-year follow-up of persons who have been in treatment for alcohol and or/ drug problems

Risks of injection drug use in a Swedish context: Prevention of harms in practice according to users, treatment staff, and societal actors

The future of social service work with substance use (FUSS): clients, trajectories, organisations and collaboration in a changing treatment system.

Understanding the mechanisms leading to young people drinking less than the generations before holds implications for approaches to reducing alcohol consumption at the population level in an ongoing way. The project is focuses attention on individual, developmental and social factors of all adolescents, including light drinkers and those who do not drink.